{"id":93357,"date":"2017-08-29T15:42:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=93357"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:48:11","slug":"this-is-what-the-earth-looked-like-millions-of-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-is-what-the-earth-looked-like-millions-of-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"This is what the Earth looked like Millions of Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever looked at the world and thought that the continents look like pieces from a <strong>jigsaw puzzle<\/strong>? Have you ever thought that maybe they <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-93358 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/What-did-the-earth-look-like.jpg\" alt=\"What did the earth look like\" width=\"219\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/What-did-the-earth-look-like.jpg 555w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/What-did-the-earth-look-like-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/>used to be <strong>one huge landmass<\/strong> that have separated over time? Well if you have, or if you simply have an <strong>interest in the history of our planet<\/strong>, you\u2019ll love dinosaurpictures.org&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dinosaurpictures.org\/ancient-earth\/#600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ancient Earths<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dinosaurpictures.org offers a <strong>rudimentary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/google-earth.en.softonic.com\/download\">Google Earth<\/a><\/strong> that lets you spin the world around and discover all its secrets. What sets it apart, however, is the ability to <strong>view the earth at different times over the last 600 million years.<\/strong> Want to see what the earth looked like when the Dinosaurs were wiped out? All you <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-93359 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/What-did-the-earth-look-like-info.jpg\" alt=\"What did the earth look like info\" width=\"260\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/What-did-the-earth-look-like-info.jpg 333w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/What-did-the-earth-look-like-info-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>have to do is select 65 million years ago in the drop down menu and you\u2019ll be able to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>As well as giving you a digital representation of what the planet looked\u00a0like way back when, dinosaurpictures is also a <strong>valuable tool for visualizing how life has evolved<\/strong> on earth over the last 600 million years. Each time frame has information about the <strong>type of life<\/strong> that was around back then and there is also a second drop down <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-93360 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/What-did-the-earth-look-like-jump-to.jpg\" alt=\"What did the earth look like jump to\" width=\"215\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/What-did-the-earth-look-like-jump-to.jpg 291w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2017\/08\/What-did-the-earth-look-like-jump-to-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>menu that allows you to select a <strong>timeframe based on what types of life there were.<\/strong> You can jump to the time of the first dinosaurs for example or even all the way back to the first multicellular life.<\/p>\n<p>The site itself might look a bit basic but there is plenty of fascinating information to be found at disnosaurpictures and definitely a <strong>school project or two<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever looked at the world and thought that the continents look like pieces from a jigsaw puzzle? Have you ever thought that maybe they used to be one huge landmass that have separated over time? Well if you have, or if you simply have an interest in the history of our planet, you\u2019ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/this-is-what-the-earth-looked-like-millions-of-years-ago\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This is what the Earth looked like Millions of Years Ago&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9073,"featured_media":93361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-93357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328614,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93357\/revisions\/328614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93357"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=93357"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=93357"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=93357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}